Word: fat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Conscientious Labor Secretary James Mitchell works hard at trying to be a good Republican shepherd to all U.S. workingmen. With prosperity and union organization, most of his flock live fat in the fold-but he worries over one nagging exception. Wandering up and down the nation's agricultural circuits, from California to Washington, Texas to Michigan, and Florida to New York, more than 500,000 migrant farm workers, following trails of seasonal planting and harvesting, work and live in scrabbling poverty which Mitchell calls a "national disgrace": average earnings in 1957 of $892, hourly wages...
...years, teachers have beseeched parents to lend a hand in schools. Lexington, Mass. has found a way to put them to work. Last week, when Art Teacher Paul Ciano wanted technical advice, all he had to do was flip open a fat new directory of citizen volunteers. He picked out a professional painter, a package designer and an M.I.T. professor of sculpture-all enrolled in a unique campaign to prod outside talent into the town's classrooms...
...sudden death during exercise may be due to exhaustion of blood sugar rather than heart damage.¶ Exercise helps to guard against obvious obesity (a proved life-shortener), said Boston's bicycle-riding Paul Dudley White, 73, himself as lean as a beanpole, and also against harmful fat deposits that hide in arteries supplying the legs, lungs, heart and brain...
...planes they have to-and then some. But they are playing safe, in case they have guessed wrong. They have written off most-or all-of their heavy development costs so they will not be a burden in future years. If the planes are sold, profits will be fat. Lockheed's Chairman Robert Gross pointed out that in 1946. when Lockheed began to sell its Constellation, the company set a sales goal of 135 Connies as the break-even point "and prayed for the best." All told, Lockheed sold 856 Connies for more than $1.5 billion-and a fine...
...Fat. Paradoxically, the companies that were fattest with profitable commercial and defense projects when the missile buildup began have moved the slowest into the new art, largely because they were too busy.with the present to spend time and money on the future. United's Horner candidly acknowledges that his company was in no rush to jump into rocket engines, because it had all it could do to keep ahead in the race to make better jets. "If we had gone into rockets, we might not have had our J-57-" said he, and the J-57, which powers almost...